EPostNCBI: NCBI EPost API

In YulongNiu/NCBI_API: A package for providing NCBI databases API in R

Description

NCBI Database API - Directly use NCBI EPost API

Usage

EPostNCBI(postPara, ...)

Arguments

postPara	A named list of HTTP POST terms. For example, "db" is E-utility Database Name, see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25497/table/chapter2.T._entrez_unique_identifiers_ui/?report=objectonly.
...	Parameters inherited from the "postForm()" function in the "RCurl" package.

Details

NCBI EPost provide thousands of queries in one HTTP POST.

Value

A names list containing "QueryKey", "Count", "WebEnv".

Author(s)

Yulong Niu [e-mail]

References

Entrez Programming Utilities Help http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25499/

Examples

genePara <- list(db = "gene", id="948242,15486644")
genePost <- EPostNCBI(genePara)

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